I have a fuzzy memory of this one time my dad asked my mom to make chhole for the millionth time. In my family, “chhole”, or channa, simply meant the gravy-simmered chickpea dish you generally see in Indian restaurants (fast food and regular), paired with bhature, the maida-based fried puffy bread, and sliced (not chopped,…
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an ode: pav bhaji
Do you have favorites? A character, movie, scene, drive, trip, author, interaction, memory, whatever, that you enjoy above all others? I don’t. If you ask which insert-topic-here I like best, there’s a 99% chance I can’t tell you. Call it skepticism of the concept of timeless favorites, or plain indecision (who’re we kidding, though, we…
the non-recipe green chutney recipe (mint & cilantro)
We grew up with a healthy suspicion of restaurant sauces. Chutney, saunth, achar—the kinds that come in packets or in bowls in the center of the tables in restaurants—all of these were too soupy, too synthetically hued, and carried great risk of making us fall sick. No, we turned up our noses at these, in…
pass the pepper 